Chasing after the lost Minutes.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2676, 4 December 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

Chasing after the lost Minutes.

When you see a woman flustered and groaning over her hard work and lack of time-Te sure that she is a chaser of lost minutes. The woman who does things, who “gets there’’ while lier friend, the groaner. is still lamenting being pushed, is the woman who knows when to idle and when to hustle. How much good do you get out of a rest- taken at the wrong time? "When you sit down in the morning to read a novel with the house in heaps and a dozen things that just must be done, don’t imagine you are resting. There is a mighty difference between before-duty and after-duty relaxing. The former is nothing but lack of sense and failure to grasp the value of lost minutes. The woman who. can find leisure to read the modern prototype of “Tim Duchess,” when most well regulated housewives are grubbing, is generally the woman who is never known to keep an engagement on time, or who arrives at it breathless, disheveled and complaining. We are wont to decry the Dutch type of housekeeper whose. hands are only idle when she sleeps.; It would be interesting if some statistician would compute the time saved by this thrifty habit. Be sure the chaser of the lost moment would do well to cultivate hand occupation. She will hold intermediate conversations with her neighbor from the back’ porch or over the kitchen fence, never thinking that hands and tongue could profitably work in combination. It is always fate, not herself, that is at fattlt when she finds herself swamped'with last minute repairs before - she can next go 0ut".... The lost minute chaser ever has a corner on torn skirt braids, ripped gloves :;'.aridbuttonless shoes. , ; 4 „ Yet, if the workbox is kept ill a convenient place such odd jobs can easily be done* when “hubby” persists in reading the morning paper "aloud dr when the housewife next door, with her full quota of maids, drops in for a friendly call.